Quotes by Freya Stark

“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.”

“Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.”

“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this ...”

“The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you”

“What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as they do - an extension of themselves, in fact! Even Christianity does not cure us, since one cannot ...”

“Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.”

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”

“Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.”

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”

“The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.”

“Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins become fetters if they cannot alter.”

“All our acts have sacramental possibilities.”

“Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like any other.”

“Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes the thwarting of the instinct to lov...”

“Time is the sea in which men grow are born or die.”

“Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be shared.”

“All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.”

“The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.”

“What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as they do - an extension of themselves, in fact! Even Christianity does not cure us, since one cannot ...”

“Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like any other.”